Journal of Development Studies

1995 - 2025

Current editor(s): Howard White, Oliver Morrissey and Ken Shadlen

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Volume 44, issue 10, 2008

The Politics of Telecommunications Regulation: State-Industry Alliance Favouring Foreign Investment in India pp. 1405-1423

Rahul Mukherji

Distributional Consequences of Globalisation: Empirical Evidence from Panel Data pp. 1424-1449

Mahvash Qureshi and Guanghua Wan

The Persistence of Social Differentiation in the Philippine Uplands pp. 1450-1473

Wolfram Dressler and Sarah Turner

Sugar Co-operatives in Maharashtra: A Political Economy Perspective pp. 1474-1505

Mala Lalvani

Can Schools Reduce the Indigenous Test Score Gap? Evidence from Chile pp. 1506-1530

Patrick McEwan

Small-Business Participation in the Informal Sector of an Emerging Economy pp. 1531-1553

Sandra Sookram and Patrick Kent Watson

Greening Aid? Understanding the Environmental Impact of Development Assistance pp. 1554-1555

Mak Arvin

In Defence of Labour Market Institutions pp. 1555-1557

Michael Nolan

Development, Security and Unending War: Governing the World of Peoples pp. 1557-1558

Alex Kirkup

Economists with Guns: Authoritarian Development and US-Indonesian Relations. 1960-1968 pp. 1559-1560

Anne Booth

Volume 44, issue 9, 2008

Institutional Flaws and Corruption Incentives in India pp. 1243-1261

Alan Heston and Vijay Kumar

Rent-Seeking and Gender in Local Governance pp. 1262-1288

V. Vijayalakshmi

The Effectiveness of India's Anti-Poverty Programmes pp. 1289-1308

Anjini Kochar

The 'Nowhere' Children: Patriarchy and the Role of Girls in India's Rural Economy pp. 1309-1341

Uma Kambhampati and Raji Rajan

The Performance of Privatised Enterprises in Developing Countries pp. 1342-1353

Paul Cook and Yuichiro Uchida

Market Integration and Uncertainty: The Impact of Domestic and International Commodity Price Variability on Rural Household Income and Welfare in Ghana and Peru pp. 1354-1381

George Rapsomanikis and Alexander Sarris

The Rise of the Skill Premium in Mexican Maquiladoras pp. 1382-1404

Andre Mollick

Volume 44, issue 8, 2008

Cows and Conquistadors: A Contribution on the Colonial Origins of Comparative Development pp. 1081-1099

David Fielding and Sebastián Torres Ledezma

Decentralisation's Effects on Public Investment: Evidence and Policy Lessons from Bolivia and Colombia pp. 1100-1121

Jean-Paul Faguet

The Depoliticisation of Development and the Democratisation of Politics in Tanzania: Parallel Structures as Obstacles to Delivering Services to the Poor pp. 1122-1144

Siri Lange

Can the World Bank Build Social Capital? The Experience of Social Funds in Malawi and Zambia pp. 1145-1168

Anju Vajja and Howard White

A Dynamic Equalisation Model for Economic and Social Capital Grants with a South African Example pp. 1169-1189

Jaya Josie, Garry MacDonald and Jeffrey Petchey

Robbing the Riches: Capital Flight, Institutions and Debt pp. 1190-1213

Valerie Cerra, Meenakshi Rishi and Sweta Saxena

The Politics of Subversion in Development Practice: An Exploration of Microfinance in Nepal and Vietnam pp. 1214-1235

Yogendra Shakya and Katharine Rankin

India's Economic Transition: The Politics of Reforms pp. 1236-1237

Matthew McCartney

The Poverty Regime in Village India pp. 1237-1239

Aditya Mishra

African Development: Making Sense of the Issues and Actors pp. 1239-1240

Andrew Lawrence

The Political Economy of Saudi Arabia pp. 1240-1242

Steffen Hertog

Volume 44, issue 7, 2008

Is There a Social Kuznets Curve? The Influence of Labour Standards on Inequality pp. 913-934

Remi Bazillier and Nicolas Sirven

Conditional Cash Transfers, Adult Work Incentives, and Poverty pp. 935-960

Emmanuel Skoufias and Vincenzo Di Maro

Daughter Elimination in Tamil Nadu, India: A Tale of Two Ratios pp. 961-990

Sharada Srinivasan and Arjun Bedi

Making Land Rights Accessible: Social Movements and Political-Legal Innovation in the Rural Philippines pp. 991-1022

Jennifer Franco

How Concessional is Aid Lending? pp. 1023-1036

David Potts and Woo Yong Chung

Vertical Specialisation and its Determinants pp. 1037-1055

Hildegunn Nordås

The Political Economy of Institutions, Stability and Investment: A Simultaneous Equation Approach in an Emerging Economy. The Case of South Africa pp. 1056-1079

Johannes Fedderke and John Luiz

Volume 44, issue 6, 2008

Literacies, Identities and Social Change: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literacy and Development pp. 769-778

Kaushik Basu, Bryan Maddox and Anna Robinson-Pant

'Why Literacy Matters': Exploring A Policy Perspective on Literacies, Identities and Social Change pp. 779-796

Anna Robinson-Pant

Literacy Sharing, Assortative Mating, or What? Labour Market Advantages and Proximate Illiteracy Revisited pp. 797-838

Vegard Iversen and Richard Palmer-Jones

Externality and Literacy: A Note pp. 839-848

S. Subramanian

Literacies of Distinction: (Dis)Empowerment in Social Movements pp. 849-862

Dorothy Holland and Debra Skinner

Literacies and Discourses of Development Among the Rabaris of Kutch, India pp. 863-879

Caroline Dyer

Mail that Feeds the Family: Popular Correspondence and Official Literacy Campaigns pp. 880-891

Virginia Zavala

'Making Things Happen': Literacy and Agency in Housing Struggles in South Africa pp. 892-912

Catherine Kell

Volume 44, issue 5, 2008

Technology, Development and Innovation Systems: An Introduction pp. 613-621

Jorge Niosi

Why Do Multinational Corporations Locate Their Advanced R&D Centres in Beijing? pp. 622-644

Yun-Chung Chen

Foreign Direct Investment Spillovers and the Absorptive Capabilities of Domestic Firms in the Argentine Manufacturing Sector (1992-2001) pp. 645-677

Daniel Chudnovsky, Andrés López and Gaston Rossi

Catching Up and Academic Institutions: A Comparative Study of Past National Experiences pp. 678-700

Roberto Mazzoleni

Openness and Technological Innovations in Developing Countries: Evidence from Firm-Level Surveys pp. 701-727

Rita Almeida and Ana Fernandes

FDI, Linkages and the Efficiency of State-Owned Enterprises in China pp. 728-749

Sourafel Girma and Yundan Gong

Bottom Billion: Countries or People? pp. 750-760

Michael Lipton

Land, Poverty and Livelihoods in an Era of Globalization. Perspectives from Developing and Transition Countries pp. 761-763

Steve Wiggins

Transforming the Rural Nonfarm Economy: Opportunities and Threats in the Developing World pp. 763-764

Frank Ellis

Growing Apart: Oil, Politics and Economic Change in Indonesia and Nigeria pp. 764-765

Jan Kees van Donge

Can NGOs Make a Difference: The Challenge of Development Alternatives pp. 766-767

Michael Jennings

Volume 44, issue 4, 2008

The Benefits and Costs of Microfinance: Evidence from Bangladesh pp. 463-484

Matthieu Chemin

Formal and Informal Rural Credit in Four Provinces of Vietnam pp. 485-503

Mikkel Barslund and Finn Tarp

Overcoming Selection Bias in Microcredit Impact Assessments: A Case Study in Peru pp. 504-518

Gwendolyn Alexander Tedeschi

Core Poverty, Vagueness and Adaptation: A New Methodology and Some Results for South Africa pp. 519-544

David A Clark and Mozaffar Qizilbash

Multiple Dimensions of Social Assistance: The Case of Peru's 'Glass of Milk' Programme pp. 545-561

James Copestake

Health as a Family Matter: Do Intra-household Education Externalities Matter for Maternal and Child Health? pp. 562-585

Magnus Lindelow

Moving Towards More Effective Seed Aid pp. 586-612

Louise Sperling, H David Cooper and Tom Remington

Volume 44, issue 3, 2008

Behavioural Development Economics: Lessons from Field Labs in the Developing World pp. 311-338

Juan-Camilo Cardenas and Jeffrey Carpenter

State Failure and Success in Uganda and Zimbabwe: The Logic of Political Decay and Reconstruction in Africa pp. 339-364

E. A. Brett

Poverty Effects from Trade Liberalisation in Argentina pp. 365-383

Ariel Barraud and German Calfat

Community Formation, 'Ideal' Villages and Watershed Development in Western India pp. 384-408

Priya Sangameswaran

Barriers to Efficiency and the Privatisation of Township-Village Enterprises pp. 409-424

Xiangming Fang and Rodney Smith

Civic Environmental NGOs, Civil Society, and Democratisation in China pp. 425-448

Shui-Yan Tang and Xueyong Zhan

Volume 44, issue 2, 2008

The 'Feminisation of Poverty' and the 'Feminisation' of Anti-Poverty Programmes: Room for Revision? pp. 165-197

Sylvia Chant

The Fiction of Development: Literary Representation as a Source of Authoritative Knowledge pp. 198-216

David Lewis, Dennis Rodgers and Michael Woolcock

Non-market Returns to Traditional Human Capital: Nutritional Status and Traditional Knowledge in a Native Amazonian Society pp. 217-232

Victoria Reyes-Garcia, Thomas McDade, Vincent Vadez, Tomas Huanca, William Leonard, Susan Tanner and Ricardo Godoy

Regional Returns to Education, Child Labour and Schooling in India pp. 233-257

Rubiana Chamarbagwala

Education, Employment and Earnings of Secondary School and University Leavers in Tanzania: Evidence from a Tracer Study pp. 258-288

Samer Al-Samarrai and Barry Reilly

Factor Proportions, Openness and Factor Prices in Kenya 1965-2000 pp. 289-310

Arne Bigsten and Dick Durevall

Volume 44, issue 1, 2008

Globalisation, Power and Integration: The Political Economy of Regional and Bilateral Trade Agreements in the Americas pp. 1-20

Ken Shadlen

Developing Country Exports of Manufactures: Moving Up the Ladder to Escape the Fallacy of Composition? pp. 21-48

Arslan Razmi and Robert Blecker

North-South and South-South Trade-Related Technology Diffusion: How Important Are They in Improving TFP Growth? pp. 49-59

Maurice Schiff and Yanling Wang

Trade, Technology and Employment in South Africa pp. 60-79

Rhys Jenkins

Tripling Africa's Primary Exports: What, How, Where? pp. 80-102

Joerg Mayer and Pilar Fajarnes

Corruption, Taxation and Natural Resource Management in Tanzania pp. 103-126

Dan Brockington

Post-Civil War San Salvador: Social Inequalities of Household and Basic Infrastructure in a Central American City pp. 127-152

Richard Tardanico